Welcome.
I am a Carnegie-Princeton Fellow in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton.
I work on near-field cosmology. I study resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies to investigate formation scenarios in the context of hierarchical assembly. I am interested in stellar streams and shells as tracers of merger history and dark matter, the evolutionary connection between the stellar disk and halo, in-situ vs. ex-situ formation channels for the stellar halo, and galactic stellar structure in general.
My work has focused on the Andromeda galaxy (M31), which is rivaled only by the Milky Way in its ability to address these topics, and serves to connect the Local Group to the broader local universe. In particular, I use large ground-based telescopes to measure the properties of individual giant stars from their stellar spectra. I am also interested in making connections between observations and models and have worked with galaxy formation simulations in the past.
Previously, I spent two years at the Carnegie Observatories as part of my Carnegie-Princeton Fellowship. I obtained my PhD in Astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in 2020 and completed my B.S. in Physics at the University of California, San Diego in 2015.
Media
See below for some links to public talks, interviews, and articles.